Emerson, Eleanor; Worcester, Samuel. Memoir of Mrs. Eleanor Emerson, accompanied with Dr. Worcester's Sermon, occasioned by her Death; with an Appendix. Boston: L. W. Kimball, 1830. Third Edition. [10423]
Leather spine with marbled boards, joints good, binding is scuffed yet intact, no cracks, tight, 6 x 4 inches. Lacks both front and one rear free end paper (blanks). 154 pp., light foxing. Good. Hardcover.
Dr. Worcester's sermon, reprinted here, is The Christian Mourning with Hope. A Sermon, preached at Beverly, November 14, 1808, occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Eleanor Emerson, wife of the Rev. Joseph Emerson. The Appendix is a reprint of Mrs. Emerson's Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Abigail Pickard, and her amiable daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Wallis. It was first published in the Massachusetts Missionary Magazine for January, 1808.
Eleanor Read Emerson (1777-1808), b. Northbridge, Massachusetts; d. Beverly, Massachusetts. She was an early and voracious reader and at the age of fourteen became a school-keeper, a vocation she practiced for the next twelve years. She had a weak physical constitution, and it is said she would spend her days teaching her pupils, after which she was ministered to by a nurse in the evenings. In 1805 she married the Rev. Joseph Emerson, and died just three years later. This Memoir consists mainly of letters and testimonies written by Eleanor Emerson herself, with a slim narrative tying them together.
